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26 Dec, 5 tweets, 6 min read
1. Which corporations are making last minute PAC contributions to @kloeffler?

There is a new filing that revealed, for the first time, Loeffler's corporate donors from 11/23 to 12/16.

Follow along if interested.
@KLoeffler 2. Recent corporate PAC donations to Kelly Loeffler:

@Outback (2.5K, 12/16)

@McGuireWoodsLLP (5K, 12/16)

@StateFarm (5K, 12/16)

@Wendys (5K, 12/16)

@3M (2.5K, 12/10)

@budweiserusa (2.5K, 12/09)

@Allstate (1K, 12/08)

@DLA_Piper (2.5K, 12/08)

@HomeDepot (5K, 12/08)
3. Recent corporate PAC donations to Kelly Loeffler (con't):

@LibertyMutual (5K, 12/08)

@Boeing (5K, 12/08)

@7eleven (2K, 12/07)

@Chevron (5K, 12/03)

@BACARDI (1K, 11/30)

@BurgerKing (5K, 11/30)

@pfizer (5K, 11/30)

@HRBlock (1K, 11/24)

@KochIndustries (5K, 11/24)
4. Recent corporate PAC donations to Kelly Loeffler (con't):

@MolsonCoors (2.5K, 11/24)

@Ford (5K, 11/23)

@FOXCorp (5K, 11/23)
5. Resolve to hold corporations accountable in 2021.

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27 Dec
1. In this thread, @ggreenwald accused me of deception and stated that it is "obvious" that Facebook is intervening to benefit Democrats.

Glenn supports free speech, as do I. So I'm going to respond in good faith and trust that it will not devolve into name-calling
@ggreenwald 2. I don't need to speculate into whether Facebook is tilting the playing field toward the GOP. I've done reporting on it.

Public policy is set through Facebook's DC office, where Kaplan and two other Republican operative call the shots.

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3. I made calls and spoke to several people who worked there.

"Decisions are made to benefit Republicans because they are paranoid about their reputation among conservative Republicans, particularly Trump," one former Facebook DC employee told me

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26 Dec
1. Joel Kaplan, Facebook's global head of public policy, donated $2800 to Loeffler and $2800 to Perdue on December 24
2. Here, I document how Facebook has failed to enforce Facebook's policies on ads that include false attacks on Warnock, Loeffler's opponent

Has Kaplan been involved in any of these decisions?

3. Resolve to hold corporations accountable in 2021.

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26 Dec
1. UPDATE: I documented how American Crossroads repeatedly posted a brutally misleading Facebook ad claiming Raphael Warnock said "God damn America," as if it was his own opinion.

Facebook took it down yesterday.

Now Loeffler herself is stepping in

2. Now, Loeffler's campaign is running a Facebook ad featuring these absurdly misleading clips.

Warnock was discussing Jeremiah Wright's sermon, not expressing his own views

This ad violates Facebook prohibition against false ads but candidates like Loeffler are EXEMPT
3. Loeffler has paid Facebook at least $25,000 to spread this lie which Facebook has accepted and in return as many as 500K Georgia voters have seen this false ad.

This is why Facebook's information ecosystem is broken
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25 Dec
1. Which corporations are making last minute PAC contributions to @sendavidperdue?

There was a new filing last night that revealed, for the first time, Perdue's corporate donors from 11/23 to 12/16.

Follow along if interested.
@sendavidperdue 2. Recent corporate PAC donations to Perdue:

@northropgrumman (5K, 12/16)

@KochIndustries (5K, 12/16)

@LibertyMutual (5K, 12/16)

@Microsoft (5K, 12/16)

@Boeing (5K, 12/16)

@BurgerKing (5K, 12/16)

@budweiserusa (5K, 12/11)

@jpmorgan (5K, 12/10)

@aflac (5K, 12/9)
3. Recent corporate PAC donations to Perdue (con't):

@BakerHostetler (5K, 12/9)

@BBVA_USA (5K, 12/9)

@CharlesSchwab (5K, 12/9)

@Chevron (5K, 12/9)

@generalelectric (5K, 12/9)

@Merck (5K, 12/9)

@pfizer (5K, 12/9)

@StateFarm (5K, 12/9)

@TheHartford (5K, 12/8)
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24 Dec
1. I know it's Christmas Eve but people should understand what's happening with Facebook ads and the Georgia Senate runoffs.

These elections will determine the trajectory of American politics for the next two years.

Facebook's conduct is indefensible

Follow along if interested
2. The story starts on December 17, after Facebook begins allowing political ads in Georgia.

American Crossroads, a Super PAC run by Karl Rove and financed by Mitch McConnell, starts running a brutally dishonest ad against Raphael Warnock
3. The American Crossroads ad tells Georgia voters on Facebook that Warnock said "God Damn America."

As if he was expressing his own views. But he wasn't. He was quoting Jerimiah Wright in a speech he delivered on 7/11/13.

We tracked down the full quote
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23 Dec
1. American Crossroads had ads removed by Facebook because of a brutally dishonest attack on Warnock.

The ads claimed that Warnock said "God Damn America" as an expression of his own views.

He was quoting someone else

One day later, Facebook has approved ads w/the SAME CLAIM
2. What is the point of enforcing a rule and taking down ads if you can just republish an ad with the exact same claim the next day?

This ad has been debunked by Facebook fact-checking partner

Facebook doesn't seem to be taking their own rules very seriously
3. This is the second time in two days that American Crossroads has responded to this ad getting taken down by publishing an ad with an identical claim.

Both times the ad was approved by Facebook.

Here is my thread from Monday.

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